Nimble puts data science to work for customers

A key part of Nimble Storage’s strategy is InfoSight, its cloud-based analytics system covering storage and other aspects of the technology stack. Today’s infrastructures are too complex for anyone to really understand what’s going on, and doing your own analytics is also more complex than most organisations care to deal with. So Nimble’s InfoSight has the storage arrays collect a wide variety of system health data and send it to the company for analysis, with the results and recommendations made available to customers. The array firmware was designed to reliably collect a wide range of performance-related data, and Nimble uses other vendors’ APIs (notably those provided by VMware) to collect data about other aspects of the stack. Vice president of analytics and support Rod Bagg said Nimble is planning to add…